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Screen Media Ventures have moved up the digital release date of Hope Gap after having its theatrical window cut short due to the pandemic. The pic, which was picked up Screen Media and Roadside Attractions last May and had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, was released in limited…

Talk about being in cahoots. Sony and Disney just made major changes on their release date calendars, particularly among their Marvel properties. Sony said Friday that it is moving their Spider-Man: Homecoming threequel to Nov. 5, 2021 instead of keeping their original July 16 date next year. Disney then announced…

Paramount has just made a few 2021 and 2022 release date changes with news that Mission: Impossible 7 will now open on Nov. 19, 2021 instead of July 23 next year. The Tom Cruise production was arguably the first Hollywood production to be halted out of safety due to the COVID-19 outbreak, with production completely…

UPDATED, 8:31AM April 23: In the latest release-date move amid the coronavirus shutdown, Paramount has moved its Johnny Knoxville pic Jackass from its planned March 5, 2021, release to July 2 next year. It’s the fourth movie based on the MTV stunt-prank reality series. PREVIOUSLY, December 18: Jackass will continue to…

Paramount’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse, starring Michael B. Jordan, will now open on October 2 this year instead of September 18 — essentially a two-week shift. This comes in the wake of Sony moving Venom: Let There Be Carnage from October 2 to June 25, 2021.  Currently over the Oct. 2-4 period, Paramount is…

As more studios experiment with bringing high-quality pics into the home during the current COVID-19 home quarantine, Warner Bros is jumping into the mix by fast-tracking its animated pic Scoob! onto PVOD and premium digital ownership on May 15 in the U.S. and Canada. The Tony Cervone-directed feature animated take on…

Warner Bros. now will release Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights on June 18, 2021. The movie based on the hit Broadway musical originally was expected to open on June 26 this year, but the COVID-19 shutdown of theaters pushed the movie off Warners’ calendar. In the Heights is a feature take on Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Al…

Paramount is bringing Blue Story straight to digital platforms after its UK theatrical debut last November. The pic was slated to hit U.S. theaters March 20 but due to closures in the wake of the pandemic, Blue Story will be available to purchase or rent beginning on May 5. Written and directed by Andrew Onwubolu…

Sony’s newly titled Venom: Let There Be Carnage is no longer opening on Oct. 2 this year, rather June 25, 2021. This is also the first time we’re hearing about the title for the Andy Serkis directed sequel. The news comes in the wake of Warner Bros. announcing yesterday that their Matt Reeves’ The Batman is no longer…

With many productions halted due to COVID-19 and the 2021 release schedule greatly in need of product, Warner Bros has shifted a slew of theatrical release dates. Matt Reeves’ The Batman, which is currently stalled in London, will no longer open on June 25, 2021 next summer, but rather in the first weekend of October…

Gravitas Ventures has set a VOD/digital release for Sean McEwen’s debut feature Braking For Whales on April 24. The Narrator Entertainment and Charlie Baby Productions film stars Tammin Sursok (Pretty Little Liars), Tom Felton (Harry Potter franchise), Wendi McLendon-Covey (The Goldbergs), David Koechner (Anchorman: Th…

With so many delays, postponements and cancellations of productions of TV series and films, there are a lot of question marks hovering above many highly anticipated films and a lot of them are of the superhero kind. James Gunn has two big ones on his his plate: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and The Suicide Squad. He…